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1. White leather gloves
1995.36.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.36.2 a-b
Date:
approximately 1930-1939
…Pair of leather gloves worn by Viennese woman immigrating from Nazi Austria via Shanghai, China. Used by Lily Bergstein while immigrating from Nazi…
2. Hebrew prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.6
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
publication: 1885
Title:
Machzor l'Yom Rishon v'Sheni shel Pesach im tirgum ashkenazi
Alternate Title:
Prayer book for the First and Second Day of Passover with the Ashkenazi translation
Prayers for the Passover with German translation
Gebete für das Pessachfest mit deutscher Uebersetsung
… immigrate to Uruguay. Shortly thereafter, their house, accounts, and assets were seized by the government, and they lost the crates of belongings they had…
3. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
… immigrate to Uruguay. Shortly thereafter, their house, accounts, and assets were seized by the government, and they lost the crates of belongings they had…
4. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a German Jewish man
2016.538.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.2 a-d
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
… immigrate to Uruguay. Shortly thereafter, their house, accounts, and assets were seized by the government, and they lost the crates of belongings they had…
5. Hebrew prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.9
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
publication: 1898
Title:
Siddur Tefilot Kol ha-Shanah
Alternate Title:
Prayer book for Prayers for the Year
Gebetbuch für die neue Synagoge in Berlin
Prayer book for the new synagogue in Berlin
…, Kurt (1910-2005) and Max (?-1998). Horst lived in Leipzig until he heard a rumor that he might be arrested, and immigrated to Ecuador in 1937. On…
6. German prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.4
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
Title:
Die Psalmen Davids
Alternate Title:
The Psalms of David
… immigrate to Uruguay. Shortly thereafter, their house, accounts, and assets were seized by the government, and they lost the crates of belongings they had…
7. Shallow pewter bowl with etched Hebrew owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre
2012.456.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2012.456.2
Date:
emigration: 1938 October
… 1900, and Max, born in 1904.The Lonnerstaedter family lived in Mellrichstadt. Max immigrated to the United States in 1928. Moritz and Berta lived in…
8. Hebrew prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.5
Date:
emigration: 1937-1939 May
publication: 1923
Title:
Siddur S'fat Emet
Alternate Title:
Prayer book of the Language (Word) of Truth
Israelite prayer book
Israelitisches Gebetbuch
… immigrate to Uruguay. Shortly thereafter, their house, accounts, and assets were seized by the government, and they lost the crates of belongings they had…
9. Sports medal awarded to a young female Polish Jewish athlete during the 1935 Maccabi Games
2008.327.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 1935
emigration: 1938
…Liza (Leah) Grochowska (Grochovsky) was born in Białystok, Poland. She had an older brother, Alexander (Sasha), born in 1915, who immigrated to…
10. Handmade paper photo pocket owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre to the United States
Object | Accession Number: 2012.456.3
Date:
emigration: 1938 October
… 1900, and Max, born in 1904.The Lonnerstaedter family lived in Mellrichstadt. Max immigrated to the United States in 1928. Moritz and Berta lived in…
11. Luggage tag used by the Bund family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.87.2
Date:
use: approximately 1938
…The collection consists of travel documentation, correspondence, and luggage tags relating to the Bund family's immigration to the United States in…
12. Luggage tag used by Dorothea Bund
Object | Accession Number: 2022.87.5
Date:
use: approximately 1938
…The collection consists of travel documentation, correspondence, and luggage tags relating to the Bund family's immigration to the United States in…
13. Gray and white faux snakeskin leather handbag
1995.36.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.36.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
…Purse carried by Viennese woman while immigrating from Nazi Austria via Shanghai, China. Used by Lily Bergstein while immigrating from Nazi Austria…
14. Luggage tag used by the Bund family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.87.3
Date:
use: approximately 1938
…The collection consists of travel documentation, correspondence, and luggage tags relating to the Bund family's immigration to the United States in…
15. Luggage tag used by Dorothea Bund
Object | Accession Number: 2022.87.4
Date:
use: approximately 1938
…The collection consists of travel documentation, correspondence, and luggage tags relating to the Bund family's immigration to the United States in…
16. Handkerchief
2015.563.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.4
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
17. Textile with embroidered names
2015.563.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.3
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
18. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
19. A book of Jewish thoughts
Object | Accession Number: 2019.616.4
Date:
publication: 1938
Title:
A book of Jewish thoughts
… practice. By 1938 John and Charlotte had applied for visas to immigrate to the United States, but had yet to receive them. During Kristallnacht (9-10…
20. Brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray acquired by a German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2018.356.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1907 September 26-before 1939 March 15
… their political rights, barring them from many professions, and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews. That same year, Maria immigrated to the…